Since the diminutive Olga Korbut captured the imagination of the world with her thrilling performances at the Munich Olympics, gymnastics has become a leading international sport.
This book is for the many thousands of people who love to watch the big competitions, as well as for those who already practise the sport. Hundreds of step-by-step photographs in full colour demonstrate how the various elements of both men's and women's gymnastics are performed, together with an authoritative text especially commissioned from two top Olympic coaches. Early training throughout to the most advanced movements on the apparatus are all described.
The world of gymnastics - its competition structure, hierarchies, and its system of judging and scoring - is clearly explained, and there are fascinating details on the history of modern gymnastics.
The excitement and the beauty of the body in motion, as displayed by modern gymnastics, are nowhere so brilliantly captured as in this superbly illustrated volume.
